The left opposes all religious fundamentalists – and more than anyone else understands that ultimately there is no difference between Christian Fundamentalists and Islamic Fundamentalists and for that matter Jewish Fundamentalists or Secular Fundamentalists – its not the religion which is the problem, it is the “Fundamentalism” – fundamentalists of all stripes want to impose their views into law generally on penalty of death for anyone who disagrees.

don’t be naive Sam, if the Religious Right who comprise a very large percentage o th eRepublican voter base really got their way, homosexuality would be illegal and likely penalized by death – the Christian and Moslem Right both want to have astrict Old Testament style state including even stoning rebellious children to death (and i thought that being spanked and paddled for being a disobedient child was bad! – but speaking of corporal punishment remember that the Christian Righ parenting advice is that children as young as 2 should be spanked or even paddled to take away their “willful disobedience” – if they believe that 2 year olds are being willfully disobedient and should be spanked or even hit with a wooden paddle how old will a child have to be to be considered so willfully disobedient to be executed? How many times will they attempt to correct the wilful disobedience of a child with a paddling before a child gets killed? i am pretty sure under that system, i would have been killed before i reached the age of 10 – and quite possible long befoer i reached the age of 10).

I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one, Sam. Prove it.

So I am more amused by their fury than annoyed with it.

This is so far from the truth because the stuff that comes out of these extremists mouths usually has very little to do with the Bibles and more to do with their illiterate interpretations of it.

and from the best evidence available, true pedophiles really do have a desire to have sex with very young children – that is why pedophiles are so dangerous and reviled . now, it is likely true that some people who rape children are not pedophiles, in the majority of cases it does appear that the primary motivation is a desire to have sex with children.

To try to say that pedophilia describes anything other than people targeting young children trivializes how horrific pedophilia reall is.

indeed the dissents seem downright silly by saying that the matter – one which even the dissents admit is traditionally a matter of state law – should be deciced by the people or the legislature – ignoring that in some states people have decided – and then saying “no, not those people in the state Congress gets to decide”) – even sillier since those same Justices have struck down all sorts of laws (or would strike down all sorts of laws – such as the PPACA – popularly known as Obamacare). In fact, they say that Congress had authority to pass DOMA without pointing to exactly what enumerated power gives Congress the power to define marriage (ironically within a week after saying that those same justices said that it is required to point to some sort of Congressional power).

In fact, it seems like according to the dissent, that Congress can now pass whatever sort of law they want to (providing that there is no specific Constitutional prohibition against it) and its okay (and indeed courts should defer). And of course, they don’t believe it – why Scalia and Thomas were just the other day claiming that SORNA was unconstitutional because there was no specific provision in the Constitution to authorize Congress to require sex offender registration.

Strange people these Scalia and Thomas – Congress cannot require peopel convicted in military courts to register as a sex offender – but apparently Congress can tell you who you can marry. That is what they mean by limited government.

at least the religious right people are honest enouhg to simply admit that they find gay people icky and believe that if gay marriage is allowed, God will cast America into a Lake of Fire like it was a Chick Tract.

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